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In this paper, we investigate semi-blind opportunistic amplify-and-forward (AF) selection relaying in two-way dual-hop cooperative communication networks on independent Nakagami-m fading channels. This system is compared to channel state information (CSI)-assisted opportunistic AF selection relaying (CSIA-OAF) where the relays use variable gains for the amplification. In semi-blind opportunistic AF scenario (SB-OAF), the relays use partial CSI-fixed gains to amplify the received signals. In this work, we first derive the expression of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the case of SB-OAF selection relaying. The obtained SNR is used to process the bounds of average sum-rate, outage probability, and average symbol error rate (SER). Numerical results are used to show the performance of the proposed SB-OAF system compared to the CSIA-OAF relaying. The comparison shows that the cost of the significant reduction of the proposed SB-OAF complexity is obtained for a slight loss in performance compared to CSIA-OAF scenario.
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Appendices
Appendix A
\(\frac {dF_{x}}{dx}\) is the convolution of\(f_{P\gamma _{N_{1}R_{i}}}\) and\(f_{P\gamma _{R_{i}N_{2}}}\) which can be expressed as follows:
By substituting Eqs. 11 and12 into Eq. 37, we get
The above integral can be expressed as follows:
By substituting Eq. 39 into Eq. 38, we have
Applying the finite-sum representation of the incomplete Gamma function given by Γ(α,x) = (α−1)!\(\exp (-x) \sum _{l=0}^{\alpha -1} \frac {1}{l!}x^{l},\) Eq. 40 can be rewritten as Eq. 13.
Appendix B
The upper bound for the average sum-rate of SB-OAF system over Nakagami-m fading channels is written as [32]
Wherefγ(x) is the PDF ofγ given asγ =max (γ1,...,γL). Equation 41 can be rewritten after simple manipulations as follows:
When the Nakagami fading parameter m is an integer value, Γ(m) = (m−1)! and using the definition of Γ(.,.) given in the second line after Eq. 21, we can simply show that
Using Eq. 22, the expansion\(\left ({\Gamma }\left (m,\frac {m t^{\frac {2}{3}}}{\overline {\gamma }_{b}}\right )\right )^{L-1}\) in Eq. 42 can be written in terms of finite series expansions as follows:
Where the expression in the second line of Eq. 44 is simplified using the expansion
Where the coefficientsai,z are defined in Eq. 18. Substituting the expression Eq. 44 into Eq. 42, and after some manipulations, we obtain
The above integrals can be written as
and
Substituting Eqs. 47 and48 into Eq. 46, and after some manipulations, we obtain Eq. 17.
Appendix C
The upper bound for the average sum-rate of two-way system with CSI-assisted relays is written as in [31]
Wherefγ(x) is the PDF ofγ given asγ =max (γ1,...,γL). Considering Nakagami-m fading channels, Eq. 49 can be rewritten after simple manipulations as follows:
The expansion\(\left ({\Gamma }\left (m,\frac {m\sqrt {t}}{\overline {\gamma }_{b}}\right )\right )^{L-1}\) can be written using Eq. 44 as follows:
Substituting Eq. 51 into Eq. 50, and after some manipulations, we obtain
The above integrals can be written as
and
Substituting Eqs. 53 and54 into Eq. 52, and after some manipulations, we obtain Eq. 19.
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Hadj Alouane, W., Hamdi, N. Semi-blind two-way AF relaying over Nakagami-m fading environment.Ann. Telecommun.70, 49–62 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-014-0427-6
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